A Chicago attorney who has filed at least six federal class-action lawsuits alleging collections companies engaged in “forum
shopping” in Marion County Small Claims Courts said the practice appears to be continuing despite township court reforms
announced last year.

The fatal shooting of a guest in a Speedway motel by a former employee and the resulting civil litigation leaves the Indiana
Supreme Court to decide whether arguments of common law or a 1980s statute governs the premises owner’s degree of liability.
Trial and defense lawyers are paying keen attention.

A recent bankruptcy appeal tossing an Indianapolis shopping center’s reorganization plan further establishes that the
control of equity in Chapter 11 cases will be subject to competitive bidding and that insiders might be out of luck.

Alan Levin has been managing partner of Barnes & Thornburg LLP for 16 years, far longer than the heads of most major Indianapolis
law firms. But what most sets him apart is that he’s built his firm into a national practice by taking the maverick
approach of going it alone instead of merging with an out-of-state rival.

The Indiana Court of Appeals threw out two charges and sent a case back to the trial court after the state admitted that it
did not intend to charge the defendant with four separate acts of child molestation.

A sentence of 12 years with a year suspended was not inappropriate for a man who stole an idling car from a Lafayette convenience
store and later resisted police, punched a police dog and threatened officers.

In the House of Representatives, a bill that would change features of the Prosecuting Attorneys Retirement Fund is eligible
for a third reading vote. In the Senate, a bill calling for a study of judges’ pensions is ready for second reading
Monday as well.

An Elkhart County man’s conviction for domestic battery stands after the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday that
a jury instruction on the doctrine of transferred intent was not an abuse of discretion.

A dispute between a power generator and an electricity wholesaler should be heard in the state court, the 7th Circuit Court
of Appeals ruled after finding the central issues did not arise under federal law.

A Kentucky inmate brought to an Indiana court for sentencing on four burglary counts to which he pleaded guilty was deprived
due process when his new attorney was given only minutes to prepare, the Court of Appeals ruled.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a police officer’s testimony that incorporated statements from the victim
did not violate the defendant’s right to be confronted with the witnesses against him.

Police would be restricted in most cases from retrieving information from cell phones and similar devices for violation of
texting-while-driving laws under a measure that passed the Indiana Senate on Thursday.

A high school student’s action of trying to pull away from a school resource officer who tried to handcuff him is insufficient
to support his adjudication as a delinquent, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday.